HOW SOCIAL MEDIA IS AFFECTING TEENS' BRAINS

Watch and complete the missing words from the script:

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Scientist: When you're _____________ with your phone or something external these areas that are involved in
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daydreaming and thinking about your own thoughts and feelings ______________

The answers maybe in the brain. See that blue area of the brain? That's the area that learns empathy
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What they found is that those areas that learn empathy are only ______________ when you do nothing. When you
daydream. And that's something today's teenagers don't do
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Scientist: Kids are _________________ engaged with their technology, their phones and the Internet. They're not
activating these brain areas that are important for self-reflection and reflecting on other people and
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_______________ that empathy to emerge

Do you guys daydream? Do you ever just kind of watch the clouds go by and not think about anything in
particular? How much time do you think he's been doing that daydreaming?
Girl 1: Less than 30 seconds a day
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Girl 3: I’m so busy most of the time, sports and __________________ activities that I I'm always on the go and I
don't have a lot of time
And if no daydreaming means no empathy, we could be developing a generation that cares less about other
people
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Scientist: You're online and bullying. You don't get these cues that tell you: I need to ______________ this behavior
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that's having such a negative impact on another person and ____________________ makes it very easy for bullying
to continue
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But what worries parents and experts ____________ is how these fundamental changes to the way teenagers
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brains are ________________ is going to change the way they live in their wired world